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Folktales

A collection of 84 issues

The Bell Is Full: A Crossing Tale

The sky was always perfect in Crossing Hollow. It wasn’t weather—it was design. Every leaf shimmered in the breeze. Every cloud was a soft-edged shape, cartoonish but real enough to almost believe in. The birds chirped a melody you couldn’t name, but which seemed familiar, like a

Daemon Dialogues: A Journaling RPG of Digital Self-Discovery

From the creators of LLMFT: Large Language Model Facilitated Therapy™ Overview You are a user of LLMFT, journaling your experiences with one of three "daemon therapists." Through surreal prompts and introspective writing, you explore your digital behavior, desires, and identity. This is therapy by way of satire, reflection,

Power with Purpose in Role-Playing Games

Reframing the RPG Power Fantasy as Community Aspiration I. Introduction In The Dungeon Is a Detonator, we explored how the dungeon, long treated as a self-contained challenge, is in fact a rupture—a keystone event that destabilizes the world around it. It is not merely a location, but a catalyst:

Two Playable Folktales

Nice Words Cost Extra A Playable Folktale of Civility, Latency, and Mirth Under Surveillance Ritual Opening Read aloud before beginning: When the Lords of the Cities quantified emotion and metered grace, they declared that civility added overhead. Kindness slowed systems. Mirth destabilized consensus. Thus, they taxed it all. We speak

The Dungeon Is a Detonator

Cascading Consequences in Adventure Design I. Introduction In the classic era of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), modules—pre-written adventures designed for dungeon masters (DMs) to run with minimal preparation—presented dungeons as self-contained challenges: pockets of monsters, traps, and treasure to be cleared and checked off the map.

Off to the Banner Peaks: Haute & Dangerous

A system-agnostic adventure for 3-5 players PREMISE A starship carrying the latest collection from the interplanar fashion conglomerate VOID™ has crashed in the mountains, creating a reality-warping site where fashion literally kills. The ship's quantum design engine—the "Wish Engine"—will fully activate in 2 hours

The Last Lantern

A diceless narrative game for solo or group play. Tone: Melancholic, reflective, mythic-realism. Materials: Just this page, a journal (optional), and time to drift. Roles * The Unintended Pilot: The player-character. No classes, just fragments. You arrive carrying nothing but memory and the ache of work. * The Dive (GM or Facilitator)

White Plume Mountain: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Relics

Based on the classic D&D module by E. Gary Gygax, reimagined through Guy Ritchie's cinematic eye FADE IN: INT. MAGICAL CLONE VAT - NIGHT A bubbling, neon-green vat hisses under flickering arcane runes. NOX (30s, tiefling, sharp suit, sharper tongue) thrashes inside, half-submerged. BLACKRAZOR, a glowing

The Mirror Protocol

A Playable Folktale of Questions & Resistance A game for 2–6 players. 30–60 minutes. You’re rebels fighting a creepy app called the Mirror. It watches, predicts, and nudges. One of you is in trouble. Ask questions. Fight back. “Who’s really behind your screen?” Grab a pen,

The Node That Refused to Vanish

A Playable Folktale from the Ledger of Refusal Premise (Invitation) In a memory-layered world of networks and ruins, there are figures—nodes—who refuse the flow. Their signals persist not because they’re loud, but because they are true. You are seekers, ghosts, archivists, or anti-influencers, following the murmurs of